Brazil is the largest coffee producer in the world. Each year Brazil exports more than 44 million bags of coffee. Vietnam follows at exporting over 27 million bags each year.
GREYBACK
knot, greyback, grayback, Calidris canutus
(noun) a sandpiper that breeds in the Arctic and winters in the southern hemisphere
greyback, grayback, Limnodromus griseus
(noun) a dowitcher with a grey back
Rebel, Reb, Johnny Reb, Johnny, greyback
(noun) ‘Johnny’ was applied as a nickname for Confederate soldiers by the Federal soldiers in the American Civil War; ‘greyback’ derived from their grey Confederate uniforms
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
greyback (plural greybacks)
(historical, US, colloquial) A Confederate soldier during the US Civil War (because of the grey uniforms).
(dated) A louse.
A local name for various grey birds.
Source: Wiktionary
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ACCURATE
(adjective) conforming exactly or almost exactly to fact or to a standard or performing with total accuracy; “an accurate reproduction”; “the accounting was accurate”; “accurate measurements”; “an accurate scale”
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